Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
Katherine M. Stubbs
Associate Professor of English; Co-chair of English Department
English


Office: Miller Library 229
Phone: 207-859-5280
Fax: 859-5252
Email:

Mailing Address:
5280 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Semester Schedule
Education

Ph.D. Duke University

Areas of Expertise:
  • American literature
  • Working-class fiction
  • Ethnic literature
  • African-American literature
  • Cultural studies
  • Feminist theory
  • Women's studies
Professional Information

Katherine Stubbs teaches 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American literature. She has written an introduction for a reprint of Anzia Yezierska's 1927 novel, Arrogant Beggar, and her essays have appeared in New Media, 1750-1925: Studies in Cultural Definition and Change, differences, MELUS, and the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.

Publications

Book:

Fantasies of Fluidity: Women and Class Passing in the American Text. Under contract at Duke University Press.

Edited Volume:

Anzia Yezierska, Arrogant Beggar. Edited and with an introduction by Katherine Stubbs (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996) vii-xxxiv.

Edited Issue:

Colby Quarterly 36.1 (March 2000). “Work and Subjectivity.” Edited and with an introduction by Katherine Stubbs. 5-10.

Articles:

“Telegraphy’s Corporeal Fictions.” New Media, 1750-1925: Studies in Cultural Definition and Change. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).

"Reading Material: Contextualizing Clothing in the Work of Anzia Yezierska." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 23.2 (1998): 157-172.

"Mechanizing the Female: Discourse and Control in the Industrial Economy." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 7.3 (1995): 141-164.

"Gossip." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 359-360.

"Martha Brewster (ca. 1710-17??)." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 134-135.